THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Van Buren) - Not All Leaks Are Created Equal
Anonymized political hits are a different beast from principled whistleblowing. The post Not All Leaks Are Created Equal appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Not All Leaks Are Created Equal Anonymized political hits are a different beast from principled whistleblowing. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) I was a Federal government whistleblower, revealing the failure of Iraq’s reconstruction at a time when everyone from President Barack Obama to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising it as the solution to America’s nation-building expedition. I made public information that the government wished to keep quiet—though in my case everything was unclassified, albeit hidden away. I gained little from all this, instead being forced into…Open